EXAMPLES OF TARGETS FOR THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT Input Targets • Policies for the environment will focus on fitness for purpose of delivering the curriculum. • The resources provided by the school will be the most appropriate for delivering the curriculum within the budget available. • The ethos and culture of the school is evident throughout the environment. • The governing body will have in place a long-term plan for the development of the buildings and grounds agreed with the school’s funding agency. • The governing body will have in place a five-year maintenance plan for the improvement of the environment in line with its overall strategic plan. • The unit expenditure per pupil on premises maintenance will be between £x and £y. • The unit expenditure per pupil on other premises related costs will be between £x and £y. • The unit expenditure per pupil on total premises costs will be between £x and £y. • The unit expenditure per square metre on premises maintenance costs will be between £x and £y. • The unit expenditure per square metre on other premises related costs will be between £x and £y. • The unit expenditure per square metre on total premises costs will be between £x and £y. • The governing body will receive annually a detailed report on the current condition of the buildings and grounds, including a room/ curriculum analysis. • The governing body will protect the health of all employees, pupils and visitors. • The governing body will consider the health and safety implications of all school activities. • The governing body will designate a committee (or individual) on the governing body responsible for liaising and reporting on health and safety matters. • The governing body will have a policy on health and safety meeting statutory requirements (where appropriate, the LEA policy will

2002 ◽  
pp. 71-71
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Fitness For Purpose ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Expenditure Per Pupil ◽  
Maintenance Plan

• The governing body will ensure that all teachers are provided with the support necessary to enable them to continue to meet the National Standards for Qualified Teacher Status (TTA, 1998). • A health and safety policy which will protect the health of employees, pupils and visitors to the school will be implemented in consultation with staff. The policy will identify the organization for implementing the policy, describe how it is to be implemented, describe arrangements for telling staff about the policy, specify how health and safety performance will be monitored and reviewed, and commit senior managers to reviewing and developing the policy. (Health and Safety Commission, 1995). • There will be adequate procedures for first aid in the event of accident and illness. • The governing body or its representative(s) will consider the health and safety implications of all school activities, policies and procedures. • There will be a committee (or individual) on the governing body responsible for liaising and reporting on health and safety matters. • There will be a policy for the promotion of good health in the school. • The governing body will implement policies to regulate smoking, alcohol and drugs on school premises. • The governing body will implement a policy on the management of stress within the workplace. • The governing body will implement an appointment and selection procedure which will provide, by the selection of staff, the best possible learning environment for the pupils within the resources available; ensure that all appointments comply with education and employment legislation and equality of opportunity; ensure that the arrangements for recruiting and appointing staff offer applicants the best opportunity to demonstrate their ability to perform the advertised post. • The governing body will implement a policy on the provision and receipt of references which ensures that candidates for posts at the school are evaluated fairly and openly, and staff of the school applying for posts elsewhere have the contents of references about them shared with them.

2002 ◽  
pp. 80-80
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
Good Health ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Qualified Teacher ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Promotion Of Good Health

Manajemen Sistem Lingkungan Sekolah Adiwiyata Mandiri (Studi Kasus Di Sma Negeri I Lamongan)

KUTTAB ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Victor Imaduddin Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
School Community ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Infrastructure Management ◽  
Environmental Health And Safety ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Satisfaction Index

Developing environmental system littered fully with cultural values and sense of caring for nature is a concrete manifestation of man's role as caliph. Schools as educational institutions have become a strategic place to develop, implement and disseminate the noble role of man. On this stand, there should be a management which starts from a process of planning well-structured programs and the implementation of the programs consistently. In this context, to achieve a predicate so-called Adiwiyata Mandiri, SMA Negeri 1 Lamongan, has reformed the system of school environment that is broadly performed on four aspects integratively. The four aspects are, firstly, environment oriented-school policies, secondly, environment based-curriculum, thirdly, participatory based-school activities and fourthly, environmentally friendly school infrastructure management. The management of developing the system of education milieu in SMA N 1 Lamongan has eventually brought significant impacts: (1) increasing insight of entire school community of environment, (2) increasing sense of caring for environment of school community. (3) increasing environmental health and safety. (4) improved achievement seen from the trend of increasing number of admissions at state universities. And externally (5) In 2014 the Community Satisfaction Index (HPI) was quite good. This can be explained by the logic that when environment is healthy and comfortable, the school community will be be calm and comfortable, working conditions of teachers and employees become quite excited.

Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation Reduced Tire Pressure Initiative

1997 ◽  
Vol 1589 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Davies ◽  
Tami F. Wall ◽  
Allan Carpentier
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Membrane Surface ◽  
Vehicle Stability ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Tire Pressure ◽  
Reduced Pressure ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Short And Long Term

After examination of the research carried out by other agencies, Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation (SHT) embarked on an initiative to adapt low tire pressure technologies to the province's needs and environment. The focus of the initiative was to explore several technical questions from SHT's perspective: (a) Can low tire pressures be used to increase truck weights from secondary to primary without increasing road maintenance costs on thin membrane surface roads? (b) What are the short- and long-term effects of tire heating under high-speed/high-deflection constant reduced pressure (CRP) operations in a Saskatchewan environment? (c) What effects do lower tire pressures have on vehicle stability at highway speeds? To date, significant opportunities have been noted on local hauls (less than 30 min loaded at highway speeds) for CRP operation and long primary highway hauls that begin or end in relatively short secondary highway sections that limit vehicle weight allowed for the whole trip for central tire inflation technology. The background and environment for the initiative and the investigations and demonstrations envisioned and undertaken are briefly outlined.

scholarly journals The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Religious Exercise: Preliminary Remarks

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Adelaide Madera
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Legal Contexts

Since 2020, the spread of COVID-19 has had an overwhelming impact not only on our personal lives, but also on domestic regulatory frameworks. Influential academics have strongly underlined that, in times of deep crisis, such as the current global health crisis, the long-term workability of legal systems is put to a severe test. In this period, in fact, the protection of health has been given priority, as a precondition that is orientating many current legal choices. Such an unprecedented health emergency has also raised a serious challenge in terms of fundamental rights and liberties. Several basic rights that normally enjoy robust protection under constitutional, supranational, and international guarantees, have experienced a devastating “suspension” for the sake of public health and safety, thus giving rise to a vigorous debate concerning whether and to what extent the pandemic emergency justifies limitations on fundamental rights. The present paper introduces the Special Issue on “The crisis of the religious freedom during the age of COVID-19 pandemic”. Taking as a starting point the valuable contributions of the participants in the Special Issue, it explores analogous and distinctive implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in different legal contexts and underlines the relevance of cooperation between religious and public actors to face a global health crisis.

scholarly journals Aircraft Maintenance Check Scheduling Using Reinforcement Learning

Aerospace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Pedro Andrade ◽  
Catarina Silva ◽  
Bernardete Ribeiro ◽  
Bruno F. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Time Horizon ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Q Learning ◽  
Scheduling Policy ◽  
Real Scenario ◽  
Maintenance Plan ◽  
Small Disturbances

This paper presents a Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach to optimize the long-term scheduling of maintenance for an aircraft fleet. The problem considers fleet status, maintenance capacity, and other maintenance constraints to schedule hangar checks for a specified time horizon. The checks are scheduled within an interval, and the goal is to, schedule them as close as possible to their due date. In doing so, the number of checks is reduced, and the fleet availability increases. A Deep Q-learning algorithm is used to optimize the scheduling policy. The model is validated in a real scenario using maintenance data from 45 aircraft. The maintenance plan that is generated with our approach is compared with a previous study, which presented a Dynamic Programming (DP) based approach and airline estimations for the same period. The results show a reduction in the number of checks scheduled, which indicates the potential of RL in solving this problem. The adaptability of RL is also tested by introducing small disturbances in the initial conditions. After training the model with these simulated scenarios, the results show the robustness of the RL approach and its ability to generate efficient maintenance plans in only a few seconds.

We’re told, ‘Suck it up’: Long-Term Care Workers’ Psychological Health and Safety

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Braedley ◽  
Prince Owusu ◽  
Anna Przednowek ◽  
Pat Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Workers

scholarly journals Buprenorphine/Naloxone Maintenance Therapy: an Observational Retrospective Report on the Effect of Dose on 18 months Retention in an Office-Based Treatment Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 117822181773132
Author(s):  
Theodore V Parran ◽  
AG Mace ◽  
Yael J Dahan ◽  
Christopher A Adelman ◽  
Mykola Kolganov
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Program ◽  
Dose Range ◽  
Primary Care Clinic ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Retrospective Report ◽  
Urban Hospital ◽  
Care Clinic ◽  
Patient Retention

Context and objective: Buprenorphine has been available with few reports of the dose range necessary to adequately maintain patients. We report on the effect of 8 mg/d versus 16 mg/d of buprenorphine on long-term patient retention in office-based opioid maintenance (OBOMT). Design, setting, and participants: Case series, at an urban hospital-based primary care clinic providing OBOMT to 157 opiate-dependent, low socioeconomic status, uninsured, nonhomeless patients. Intervention: The OBOMT program operated by a comprehensive sobriety treatment program experienced State funding cuts. Thus, after 2 years, the program was required by the State funder to decrease the buprenorphine maintenance dose from 16 to 8 mg/d for all new admissions. We report on patient retention before and after dose reduction. Main outcome measures: The primary outcomes of this study were to measure and compare patient retention in the 2 cohorts at each point of treatment transition over the 18 months following OBOMT initiation. Results: No significant differences in patient retention were observed between the 16 and 8 mg/d patient cohorts. Lower dose buprenorphine maintenance (8 mg/d) in uninsured patients enrolled in publicly funded long-term OBOMT combined with comprehensive sobriety counseling was as effective as higher dose therapy (16 mg/d) in promoting patient retention throughout the study period. This lower dose resulted in a substantial saving to the public funding agency. Conclusions: In an observational retrospective report, retention in treatment of opiate-addicted patients was the same at 8 and 16 mg/d buprenorphine doses after 18 months. These data have implications for public and managed care funding of OBOMT, for the general prescribing of buprenorphine in outpatient care, and may be instructive in the ongoing debate about the relationship between buprenorphine dose.

scholarly journals Toxicological Implications of Platinum Nanoparticle Exposure: Stimulation of Intracellular Stress, Inflammatory Response, and Akt Signaling In Vitro

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia J. Labrador-Rached ◽  
Rebecca T. Browning ◽  
Laura K. Braydich-Stolle ◽  
Kristen K. Comfort
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Cellular Responses ◽  
Cellular Interactions ◽  
Platinum Nanoparticle ◽  
Liver Model ◽  
Dependent Signal ◽  
Cell Functionality

Due to their distinctive physicochemical properties, platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) have emerged as a material of interest for a number of biomedical therapeutics. However, in some instances NP exposure has been correlated to health and safety concerns, including cytotoxicity, activation of cellular stress, and modification to normal cell functionality. As PtNPs have induced differential cellular responses in vitro, the goal of this study was to further characterize the behavior and toxicological potential of PtNPs within a HepG2 liver model. This study identified that a high PtNP dosage induced HepG2 cytotoxicity. However, lower, subtoxic PtNP concentrations were able to elicit multiple stress responses, secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, and modulation of insulin-like growth factor-1 dependent signal transduction. Taken together, this work suggests that PtNPs would not be overtly toxic for acute exposures, but sustained cellular interactions might produce long term health consequences.

Health, comfort and performance of children in classrooms – New directions for research

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1040-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philomena M. Bluyssen
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Toxic Exposure ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
New Directions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Acoustic Conditions

Children spend more time in schools than in any other place except at home. Children are more susceptible than adults to effects of toxic exposure, but also to poor acoustic conditions. It is known for some time that unsatisfactory environmental conditions, can have both short-term and long-term health effects, and can affect productivity or learning ability of the children. The underlying literature study focusses on the role of the indoor school environment on the health, comfort and performance of children in classrooms. In the last decades, many studies all over the world have been performed to document the indoor environment in classrooms and to examine relations with diseases and disorders. An inventory is made of these studies, major identified issues are discussed and ‘new’ directions of research are proposed. It is concluded that new generation research studies should be focussed on engagement of the children in an active way, preferable in semi-lab environments, and taking account of all aspects and interactions between them.

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